Skype for Business: Scheduling Meetings for Windows

Introduction

The meeting feature gives you the ability to collaborate by making presentations online and sharing desktops, programs, files and a whiteboard between meeting participants.

If you use the Outlook desktop client, you can use Skype for Business Meeting to schedule a single or recurring online meeting similar to the way you use Outlook to schedule regular meetings. To create an online meeting request in the desktop client, please refer to the instructions below.

Instructions

Scheduling a Meeting

  1. Start as you would normally by going to your Outlook calendar
    Outlook Calender
  2. Click New Skype Meeting button on the ribbon and in the meeting request window
    New Skype Meeting
  3. Enter the recipients, subject, location, date and time
    Date Time Data
    • Note: A link and conference ID is automatically added to your meeting request that invitees can click to join the conversation.
       
  4. Type body of email message
  5. Click Send
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